Improvement in hand-chopping knives



'FREDERICK M. UNTIEDT, OF EAST ORANGE, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND WILLIAM MARTIN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Leners Paten 1v 91,795, dem June 22, 1869.

To all whom if may concern Be it knownv that I, FREDERICK M. UNTIEDT, of East Orange, county of Essex, and State of New J ersey, have fmade certain Improvements iu Hand-Chopping Knives; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exactv description yof the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, as forming part of this specihcation. My improvement consists in the manner of forming a knife, with blades standing in angles relatively to each other. Figure lis a perspective View of the knife complete.

Figure 2 shows one piece of steel in an edge View, bent in a form for being' combined with another, or other pieces of bent steel to form a knife.

Figure 3 is the shank, with an end View ofthe same.

Sheet-steel ofthe requisite lengtlnwidtli, and breadth is formed in suitable dies to the angle shown in fig. 2, or to any other desired angle.

Two ofthe angular pieces are held together at the points of the angles, by the two shank-pieces,`al and b,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- As a new article of manufacture, the choppingknife, tig. l, when its parts are formed and combined substantially-in the manner and for the purpose shown and described.

FREDERICK M. UNTIEDT.

Witnesses: WILLM. M; GooDINe EDWARD COLLYER. 

